Award Winner Detail

Award: Young Scientist Award
Univeristy: Oregon State University
Year: 2016
Section Awarded: Western

Reinaldo F. Cooke, Young Scientist Award

Dr. Reinaldo F. Cooke is an associate professor in the Department of Animal and Rangeland Sciences at Oregon State University. He is stationed at the Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center in Burns. His faculty appointment is split between extension and research responsibilities in beef cattle management and nutrition. Dr. Cooke leads an active research program focused on management strategies to improve productivity of forage-based cow-calf operations, including cattle nutrition, health, growth, and reproductive responses. Dr. Cooke’s research findings have resulted in invitations to speak at numerous local, national, and international events. He has authored or coauthored 71 refereed journal articles, 2 book chapters, 44 proceedings papers, 21 peer reviewed extension articles, 80 conference abstracts, 34 station reports, and 35 popular press articles. To date he has mentored 9 M.S. students, 4 Ph.D. students, and 27 interns. He is also the editor of the Oregon Beef Council Research Report, OSU Beef Research Report, OSU Beef Cattle Library, and co-chair of the Western Beef Resource Committee’s Cattle Producer’s Handbook. Furthermore, Dr. Cooke has secured a total of $3,168,651 ($683,559 as PI, in addition to $420,375 and $2,064,716 as Co-PI in national and international grants, respectively) from private and public, national and international institutions. Dr. Cooke is extremely active in service to our profession. He currently serves on the WSASAS Strategic Committee, routinely provides reviews for several prestigious refereed journals, and currently serves as Section Editor for the Journal of Animal Science (Animal Production). Dr. Cooke has also served on grant review panels for the USDA-NIFA and the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation. In addition, though he does not hold a formal teaching appointment, Dr. Cooke teaches several undergraduate classes as invited lecturer, co-instructs a graduate level course at Oregon State University, and teaches graduate courses at the São Paulo State University (Brazil). Reinaldo and his wife Flavia are the proud parents of two boys, Victor and Lucas and a beautiful little girl, Isabella.

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